1984 by George Orwell - TNT BRITAIN

1984 by George Orwell 

The brilliance of 1984 is not only that it predicts a surveillance society in which we now exist, or that it exposes the lies behind every totalitarian ideology or belief, but that it explores these themes inside the human mind as well as in the outer world. “Thought Control” is the aim of the State in 1984, and this will be achieved by destroying language so that it is impossible to commit “Thought Crime”. Is Orwell’s vision any different from the dumbing down of our communication through digital media, the collapse of writing and the triumph of the fake news?

Orwell predicts a world where morality and even ideology vanishes under the crushing impact of brute power, power for its own corrupt sake. Meanwhile, as Orwell predicted, War becomes a continuous condition of life, one that justifies any and every form of repression. Hate becomes a duty, love becomes a crime.